Wow!

I'm beginning to think that Natalie Dee and I were separated at birth!

My evidence?

Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C

And let's not forget the most damning piece of evidence to you naysayers out there... Exhibit D! (Also, E, F, and G.) {Also, this is funny.}

Anyhoo, Here's what's on the needles and what's coming up!

A poncho for my neighbor's baby*



A blanket for my neighbor's couch



A blanket for me!

Here we see The Crazy Blanket creeping up behind the unsuspecting neighbor's afghan.


I'm calling it "The Crazy Blanket". Why? Well, I bought the yarn over a year ago, for a pattern which shall remain nameless cough*LionBrand6-HourAfghanfreepattern*cough and failed miserably on nearly all counts: I could not for the life of me get all the strands of yarn to wind tangle-free into one giant ball; CO was a beeyotch; and I found the Speed Stix to be cumbersome, flimsy, and not nearly long enough for the required CO. Seriously, Lion Brand? You're going to make size 50 needles for novelty projects and make them 14"? Really? That's what you're going to do? Okay, fine.**

Secondly, this blanket has no pattern. Imagine, if you will, a really cheesy infomercial:

Midwestern Blonde: Oops! I doubled a stitch by accident!
Baritone Announcer: That's no problem with The Crazy Blanket!

Metropolitan Readhead: Oh no! I ran out of yarn in the middle of a row!
BA: That's no problem with the Crazy Blanket!

Skeletor, The Evil Lord of Destruction***: Oh darn, I got my 4th metacarpal caught again!
BA: That's no problem with the Crazy Blanket!

Also, knitting this will keep me sane. It's a super-good, truly mindless knitting project for the times that I am sleepy or watching TV or distracted by the girl, OR - as may happen now and then - all three at once! And, I'll have a nice, warm, washable blanket when I'm done!
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* I can still call her a baby, even if she is two, because that's what mommies do. I've known her since she was a fetus, so there! pbbbttthhhhtt

**Which is kinda cool, because at least I can recycle them into a bitchin'! decoration for my planned crafty space, like spraypaint them gold or something and mount them on a canvas with some yarn? Yeah!!

*** Bet'cha didn't know his full title before now!

Time flies when you're working and being a parent...

Hee! Let's pretend that time has not flown, and that it's still December, shall we? No? No time machine? Okay.

Well, I haven't really knit much in 2009, but I picked it back up a couple of weeks ago and now my current projects are: a cotton washcloth in a 6x9 basketweave pattern, a cotton jumper for the girl, and teaching some newbies how to knit during the lunch hour at work. It's pretty awesome to see new people knitting, and feels a bit like I'm creating my own army of knitters! Go forth and knit!